King, T-Bone Walker, Javier Batiz, and John Lee Hooker. Santana was influenced by popular artists of the 1950s such as B.B. The youth of today must go there to find themselves." The music was like Dalí, with many colors and revolutionary ways. The Beatles, the Doors, Jimi Hendrix created revolution and evolution themes. Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Che Guevara, Mother Teresa, they led a revolution of conscience. "The '60s were a leap in human consciousness. He was accepted at California State University, Northridge and Humboldt State University, but chose not to attend college. Santana lived in the Mission District, graduated from James Lick Middle School, and left Mission High School in 1965. Between the ages of 10 and 12, he was sexually abused by an American man who brought him across the border. Santana also credits Hendrix, Bloomfield, Hank Marvin, and Peter Green as important influences he considered Bloomfield a direct mentor, writing of a key meeting with Bloomfield in San Francisco in the foreword he wrote to a 2000 biography of Bloomfield, Michael Bloomfield: If You Love These Blues – An Oral History. Szabo", played in tribute in the style of Szabó. Santana's 2012 instrumental album Shape Shifter includes a song called "Mr. Indeed, Szabó's composition "Gypsy Queen" was used as the second part of Santana's 1970 treatment of Peter Green's composition " Black Magic Woman", almost down to identical guitar licks. Gábor Szabó's mid-1960s jazz guitar work also strongly influenced Santana's playing. King, Javier Bátiz, Mike Bloomfield, and John Lee Hooker.
to me, it was like being at a university." Īround the age of eight, Santana "fell under the influence" of blues performers like B.B. Another guy'd be listening to Miles and Coltrane. Another guy'd be listening to Tito Puente and Mongo Santamaría. Santana later said, "If I would go to some cat's room, he'd be listening to Sly and Jimi Hendrix another guy to the Stones and the Beatles. By 1968, the band had begun to incorporate different types of influences into their electric blues. In October 1966, Santana started the Santana Blues Band. They then moved to San Francisco, California, where his father had steady work. The family moved from Autlán to Tijuana, on the border with the U.S. Santana was heavily influenced by Ritchie Valens at a time when there were very few Mexicans in American rock music.
His younger brother, Jorge, also became a professional guitarist. He learned to play the violin at age five and the guitar at age eight, under the tutelage of his father, who was a mariachi musician. Santana was born in Autlán de Navarro in Jalisco, Mexico on July 20, 1947. 1.5 Shifting styles and spirituality: 1972–1979.1.3 Record deal, Woodstock breakthrough, and height of success: 1969–1972.
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